Beautiful Maz. I will endeavour to explain my take on it The sticky in Medical Conditions is about how rare lactose intolerance actually is .

One thing with my kiddies is its not a special need, nope I would never put their milk allergy in that area. Medical condition, yes I would. The allergy thing, for both my girls it has caused reflux. In Matilda, ear infections, tonsilitis, low weight gain, speech development delay (which you know could be her other issues as well). In Jovie, ezcema... but we caught hers early at 11 weeks.

Some kids with it also have issues with their gastrointestinal tract, so they have ongoing issues with anorexia, weight loss, abnormal poos, stomach cramping, IBS, and I'm sure a bit more. While I think we got away relatively easy with the milk allergy, I also think some have had it worse off and had to tube feed their children etc... which can make it a special need. With Peta's little girl in the above posts, she's been labelled as disabled with everything going on with her... I think milk allergy/lactose intolerance can sometimes just be the tip of the iceberg with these kiddles.

In Medical Conditions there are different things which range from reflux to newborn's snotty noses. So I guess we could moderate it a bit better? Moving some questions into the general baby discussion ... I will have a think about that one mate. I know you weren't meant to be *****y at all.